skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The issue is you’re going to get massive mutations building up in anything that doesn’t have the significant error correcting capability of DNA. So while the coding is not direct, it still has to somehow be in DNA so that the trait will be conserved over the generations. Shorter term changes could conceivably be stored in other molecular structures, though. (Think patterns of methylation in epigenetics or even the fringe idea of RNA memory.)

I would suspect really basic things like replication would be stored somehow in DNA (nuclear DNA, mitochondrial DNA, etc) as they must be highly conserved and mutation resistant in order for organisms to survive and reproduce.
I'm not sure this follows. There's plenty of business that are sustainable with flat growth. Especially utilities once they reach market saturation.

Just as a quick example, the supermarket down the street from me is neither expanding their market or entering a new line of business. There is no risk of a Walmart opening next door given the location. They just seem to be doing just fine selling the groceries people need each week.

Yes, sometimes market conditions change, and the companies need to react. Maybe people prefer buying avocados instead of carrots this season, and they need to adjust their stock. But outside that, there's no need for them to radically expand to stay sustainable.
It is indeed not true, even omniscient beings can only produce probability distributions.

However it is not clear if quantum effects are relevant at a biomolecular scale. Some experts[1] suggest so but these ideas are considered fringe by the mainstream.

1. Sir Roger Penrose
Building/refurbishing lead acid batteries wouldn't be all that difficult immediately post collapse.

Solar panels can also be refurbished. For poly silicon cells, it's mostly the contacts that degrade, and you can improve that with a soldering iron. A bit more work, but still doable, would be a forming gas anneal, which can additionally passivate defects.
But not error corrected like DNA.
Anything is repairable if you've got the tools and the know-how, but things like glue instead of screws are hostile to user repairs.

I've had to open a Surface that wasn't booting to recover data from the SSD and the adhesive on the screen was so strong I had to snap pieces of glass off with a screwdriver to get to it. Even the photos in the iFixit guide showed fractures in the screen. Heat guns only get you so far with some of these glues, and solvents can damage the plastics.
You can scavenge car's alternators and use a water wheel or windmill to turn it. Alternators can work for a decade with minimum maintenance. Just have five or six stashed, just in case. They can supply 40A at 12V, or using a transformer to up the voltage, 4A at 120V.
It is on windows too.
Exactly my thought.

Please leave autotools alone and don’t “improve” it.

It’s not like there are tons of build systems already and if someone is so keen in a heavy-weight build system, they can use Bazel which is so bloated that it doesn’t build on any 32-bit target in Debian.
And youtube-dl to avoid the hostility of the Youtube website:

youtube-dl https://youtu.be/SEejivHRIbE
Here's one[1].

[1] https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/ewd11xx/EWD1162.PDF
Those are for anti competitive behaviour, it's actually not the same thing.

One may led to the other but that's not equivalency. If you want to say Google and other companies may engage in anti competitive behaviour, sure. It's a somewhat subjective line though because most companies are in competition and trying to take or guard share from others, is that anti competitive?
>As far as I know he only said that in the Pennsylvania case

Not only him but also other Trump lawyers on separate occasions in Pennsylvania. See for example https://www.newsweek.com/trump-campaign-lawyer-tells-pa-judg...

There was a similar story in Arizona: https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-cries-election-fraud-in-c...
RNA is simpler but doesn’t error correct as much like DNA. It’s possible the first life forms had only RNA.
It's already there, but you refuse to accept it for some reason. The comment you linked to directly says "...the experience was positive. The hassle free HA is a huge peace of mind..."
There's a "Personal Membership" option on the website that seems to allow you to use your own rower.
My thoughts go the the paelontologist first finding this - they start with a little paint brush, carefully uncovering a tail, then more tail, then a month later they are still on the freaking tail, worn down the bristles on two brushes and thinking "yeah yeah career making discovery but jesus a velociraptor would be done by now."

Edit:
This is amazingly cool however - and honestly I cannot wait for Covid to end, decent public funding of science to appear and a facsimile of this skeleton to get stuck in every natural history museum going - my kids will be sick of their dad dragging them off to see a 120 foot long pile of bones - but up close and personal is pretty much the only way to appreciate this sort of thing.

Right that's it - tomorrow it's tape measeures and chalk outlines in the road outside!
All this kind of stuff just feels like cosplay unless you are gonna build out your own tier 1 (that also doesn't need other tier 1s)

Which isn't to say you can't learn a lot of useful practical stuff from it, just like you can from cosplay
I just did the same calculation and I that looks right
If you're transfering data to a backup service and then deleting it locally that's not backup, that's just cloud storage.
> Because at some point, who really cares about those ancient systems?

A lot of people do. Retro-computing is way more popular than you would think.

In fact, m68k is the oldest port in the Linux kernel and is so well-maintained that it saw multiple other architectures come and go.
There are lots of ways to generate electricity. You can build a bicycle dynamo or a wood burning steam turbine pretty easily. People had wind turbines charging batteries a hundred years ago.
Debating with the left on this is like debating with a brick wall. You try to have a logical conversation about the basic security aspects involved here and they respond by calling you a conspiracy theorist and change the underlying subject.
As more and more electronic components are becoming integrated, how does one decide when a right to repair is being honored vs violated? At what level do parts need to be individually replaceable?
Hetzner managed nextcloud costs $12/month (https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-share?country=us).
As a general rule of thumb, if you make an extraordinary claim, the burden lies on your to provide proof if you want to be believed. Claiming that there was widespread election fraud, including by the companies making some of the devices, is an extraordinary claim. It doesn't appear there's been any proof provided to back up those extraordinary claims. As such, they can, and should, be ignored.
It still told me which new permission it was requesting IIRC.
>No new market rule but a more informed consumer. I thought you guys would like this "free-market makes-best-decisions" gov lobbying.

I love "give the consumer the tools to make their own decision" solution.

The little bit of .gov lobbying that inevitably sneaks in anyway will create an opening for savvy consumers to save money by buying things that punch above their score (we already have this kind of thing for appliance energy ratings) or by researching scores and figuring out that something is actually highly repairable if you don't mind buying the service literature off some sketchy site you had to use Google Translate on.
Pretty gross, but thanks for the clarification.
Perhaps this is overly simplistic, but I can't imagine it's preferable from a safety perspective to have stability enhancement vs just having inherent stability.
Ignoring the Microsoft part mocking, I’d be very curious to know how non programmers found this feature.

Most programmers I know are tend to be seeking muscle memory for editing, and the touch bar adds nothing for that, but rather takes away useful keys.

I’ve sometimes gone as far (as quite a few people do) as to reprogram an external keypad to give me instant access to editor commands.

However, when I’m not programming, i tend to be much more deliberative and quite like the idea of having basic app functions available dynamically on the keyboard.

It would be interesting to know whether anyone liked it.

What does it do in XCode?
I was talking about Google.
"And why doesn't anyone want to prove Biden won?"

There's an election process with many layers of oversight, that's the 'proof'.

Just because there are what might appear to be opaque elements to us plebes, doesn't mean there is any material lack of integrity.

Most tellingly: Giuliani himself did not argue fraud in court - because he could be disbarred for introducing garbage in that process.

If the Giuliani/Trump case had any material merit whatsoever (they had umpteen people willing to provide them their 'evidence') obviously, they would have tried the courts 'for real' which they mostly did not.

They did go after things like State Congressional rights to alter voting days, to expand mail-in voting due to COVID, but that in and of itself doesn't really constitute fraud. Every state has mail-in procedures already in place.

Finally - anything that was really problematic would have been made public - as they did with a couple of videos in which they maligned workers essentially doing their jobs.

As far as Dominion - there is a paper trail for auditing, there have been hand-counts and the tallies match, i.e. no fraud at the ballot validation level.

Dominion is probably one of the more secure elements in the process.

The most 'grey and ambiguous' area of voting boils down to voter rolls. If you look at Georgia legal battles, you see they fight over the policies for purging the rolls. 'If so and so has not returned their mail-in card in over 2 years, they purge' etc..

In 2000, the vote was extremely close in Florida, and it may very well have come down to the degree to which certain groups were purged.

That said - this doesn't leave a lot of opportunity for systematic fraud. Someone grabbing someone else's ballot from the mailbox, forging their signature is well within likely to happen, and surely does happen, but it can't feasibly be scaled. The voter rolls themselves are monitored, it's not like they are a black box either.

It's important to remember that the initiative was populist. It was not to convince the courts or anyone of integrity that there was fraud, because we already knew the answer. The issue was entirely a campaign of public misinformation to discredit an opponent, to sow distrust in the system.

By far the worst 'crime' in all of this is someone using the legitimate authority of the Office of President of the USA to knowingly spread false information. Or at least a close second to pressuring election officials, state officials, the VP, and senators to interfere directly with the process.
That’s not true. A lot of embedded stuff is still 32 bits.

The simpler the hardware, the higher the reliability and the smaller the power consumption.
This is harder to answer as we don't have the data yet. There are case reports of patients who recovered from covid who have been reinfected and died. So, unfortunately, time will tell.
Toyota Mirai Is a Futuristic Luxury Sedan
> Scale matters. 160 million votes were cast in the U.S. in each of the past 2 elections.

> 36 million votes were cast in France in the last election.

> The U.S. is capable of counting 36 million votes by hand overnight as well, and most votes were once counted by hand in the U.S.

I don't understand this argument. In France, a population of roughly 67 million people can count 36 million ballots by hand overnight. That's 1.86 people per ballot.

In the US 328 million people cast 160 million ballots. That's 2.05 people per ballot.

Since counting is done at each individual polling place, what's actually keeping the US from doing the same as France? It's not like they're shipping around all of the ballots to one place, and they're limited by geometry and ballot distribution to volunteer counters. Create a polling place per 10,000 people, and within X miles of everyone. Smaller polling places would finish faster, but the big polling places don't really have to scale past what European countries already count successfully every election.
Related:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25903030
We've banned this account for ideological flamewar. Not what this site is for.

Please don't create accounts to break HN's guidelines with—it will eventually get your main account banned as well.

In case anyone's worried about it, yes, we ban accounts for this regardless of which ideology they're flaming for. It's an existential issue for HN; we'd rather not burn to a crisp, regardless of the color of the flames.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The velocity of signal propagation in copper is close to that of light. (Not to be confused with the mean velocity of the electrons.)
I'm dealing with intel AX200 chipsets (deployed to hundreds of sites only to find out they do not follow intel's own specification for PCIe (it's a 1X board that fails on any socket >1X) and that chipset handles a lot. From AP/Frequency/Channel negotiation one would expect, all the way to WPA3 which one would think to be on the software side, specially because we should trust OS kernel/drivers updates for generics such as WPA to be updated and validated faster than closed source firmware blobs.

Now, I do not know if that is truly done on the firmware or the closed source drivers, because well, the drivers are closed source. But after you accept one binary blob, you might as well threat it all as integral part of the hardware. Who cares where it runs?

i'm getting off topic :) but that is one tiny aspect of a consumer device. One would think that the routing/DPI/etc aspects of 5G hardware for tel Co to be an amplified version of that.
The Pennylvania case wasn't dismissed solely on procedure; it was dismissed on lack of merit. The claim that Trump's team made was that because some counties allowed voters to "cure" mail-in ballots if they were going to be thrown out and some didn't, that was unlawful. Multiple courts up the chain kept saying "no, this is not actually a thing." The Third Circuit's 3-0 ruling against them said, in these words, "The Campaign cannot win this lawsuit" because they "had to plead plausible facts, not just conclusory allegations". They went on to note that the number of mail-in ballots actually affected by the claims were "far smaller" than Biden's margin of victory.

> The problem is that once the election has been conducted in violation of the law, that has already happened. The total you have is inaccurate and you don't actually know who won.

If votes are cast in good faith by citizens following the voting laws as they are communicated and there is no evidence either of material fraud or of a material number of voters being disenfranchised, then you very likely do have an accurate total, right? If the election is a violation of the law because it disenfranchised enough voters to make a material difference in the outcome, that would be a different matter, but that was never actually in question here. Even if all the mail-in votes that had been "cured" had been thrown out, Biden would have still won the state. This is why Trump's team asked to have all mail-in votes thrown out: a more reasonable restitution wouldn't have achieved the outcome they wanted, e.g., Trump being awarded the state's electoral college votes regardless of the popular vote tally.

(And, AnimalMuppet is also right: every state that changed election laws in 2020 changed them, by definition, before the election. Raising objections to those laws after the election because your guy didn't win -- and only in those states -- is, well, suspect.)
This somehow almost feels me with awe even thought I am somewhat a cynical person. It’s another level of demonstrating how intricate life is, how powerful evolution can be and how incredibly well-tuned our (Earth) environment for these sorts of things (which seems to be in stark contrast with what we see elsewhere).
Putting data into cold storage, spinning up multiple flexible access points with different datasets... Sounds like what Snowflake is doing right? I don‘t really use it but looks neat from the outside. May be nice to bring some of that to OLTP.
HN was not designed for topics getting 500 comments -- those comments are there you have to scroll/page to get to them. But I guarantee though that the replies to that top comment are mostly rebuttals; very few people reply to a comment to agree with it.

Are you sure you're arguing about something that's an actual real problem here?
Thanks for the feedback. I think this is something we will certainly explore in the future.
Do those systems need new software to support them in 2021? If they used autotools, say, they could snapshot the last working version that worked with their system and not care what the new version does. It's not like there are a lot of fixes being merged in these days to handle 30 year old systems.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24763734
You're remark suggests that there is a trend overstating the value of safety. I'd argue that there is a trend under stating its value. Given that it's all subjective, I would ask a different question, which would be "when will we begin to see a trend of people appreciating diversity of opinion on the matter."

Honestly, I would have preferred not to author the project. Instead, I would have preferred to mod straight in c++, rust, vlang, or some other machine-level code that factorio would compile on load and link in. But, the factorio team didn't offer this to me, and I appreciate their diverse values, suggesting that Lua is adequate.
So you're saying it's the PHP of build tools?

...that kinda works, actually.
Short selling came in the seventeenth century with the rest of stock markets. You can’t really have a functional market without it.
Damn. I talked us into getting netgate appliances because I was led to believe that pfsense was open source.

I don't know if this realization concerns me gravely though... I would probably be much more frustrated if I had to spend weekends swapping out our networking gear yet again. To be fair, the router we use at our office is really stable. I haven't had to screw with it in over a year.
HEAD kernel runs fine on my Amiga 4000 from 1992.

It also runs fine on my SH-7785LCR SuperH board where I regularly test the latest kernel releases and patches.
Unfortunately, the membership only works with our rower at this time. But might be something we look into in the future.
I self host gitlab (digital ocean) + gitlab runner (mac mini at home).

I set it up years ago on the same server I have my static website. Since then I've hired few people and we keep using the same instance and we added a mac runner to it. Upgrades were pretty painless. We see no reason to migrate to SaaS right now.

Earlier in my career I self hosted all kinds of stuff, but these days I prefer to pay and forget about operations side.
Comparison to the field is like a dog in a kennel. I'd call that cramped. A stadium would be like a human in a studio apartment. I'd call that somewhat cramped
His companies have few innovations, at best they are iterative, and often actively worse. and he did none of it himself, he deserves zero credit

people think he is innovative because he sold decades old tech to people who didnt pay attention before, because he is a glorified marketing exec and hes not even good at that

consumer satisfaction is a poor way to measure quality
Yes, but that doesn’t mean anyone has the right to kill these architectures off.

Btw, we just saved the VAX backend in gcc.
I ran that on my Amiga when it was still new. I have no animosity toward it! But should someone in 2021 still have to expend effort to support that in upstream tools?
Related:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25911050
(1) substitute "people" for a "clusters of people with insular trust". Most of these people can not setup an account, but some of them can. They collectively managed their internal accounting and only need to go to the blockchain when a settlement with someone from the outgroup needs to be done. What is so hard to understand about this?

(2) Yes. IN EUROPE. I talked about Brazil. How many times is it going to take for you to understand that having good market competition in one place means absolute jack shit in another?

(3) You can not hold CAD or NZD or USD or EUR on a bank from Brazil. You have to convert it and there is a 6% fee for it. This is on top of the exchange rate fee from transfer wise.

The alternative I am proposing, however, is to receive crypto, sell it to BRL at the exchange (often at a better price than the USD equivalent, because there are people willing to pay the premium) and withdraw it free of charge.

In this case, crypto is giving me the choice of intermediary: a crypto exchange that I know will give better rates and faster transaction times. I could go further and convert the crypto to a stablecoin like USDC, EURS or DAI at the exchange and hold it there. I can use the exchange (if I trust it) as my informal bank which can hold crypto currency that is paired to something stronger than BRL or ARS. Worst case, I don't trust it so I withdraw local curency, but rest assured that it will be a good deal because crypto exchanges will work with rates closet to the market and not what the Central Bank is willing to pay me.

You keep arguing with unrealistic hypotheticals when you could actually ask people outside of your bubble and they will tell you the thousand different ways where the status quo is worse. Do you really think everyone is these places are so stupid?
Yes! Thanks for finding it again. I now have it bookmarked!
They were not ridiculous.

Have you heard of Antrim County? Everybody on the right heard of it on November 5th.
https://www.westernjournal.com/michigan-recount-confirms-tru...

This is "fact checked" by many left leaning websites to indicate it is false. But even the "fact checkers" admit that Trump actually won Antrim county. Their "fact check" ridicules that the 2nd recount, after the reversing of the dominion glitch that gave 3000 Trump votes to Biden, only netted Trump a few more votes after that. But the way the "fact check" articles are presented make the reader believe the whole thing is bullshit. It's not.
https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/2020/1...
Is excessive polarization an actual problem here? It doesn't seem that way to me. It seems mostly there are butt-hurt people who don't like that their opinions are unpopular, unhelpful, or illogical while everyone else (on whatever side of the issue) is happily commenting.

The only times I've ever been downvoted excessively, I've deserved it.
This comes down to React ships post compiled assets generally and Svelte libs send precompiled. This makes it much easier on library authors but also is because Svelte has built in solutions. This has tradeoffs on flexibility. Now you can be as flexible with Svelte but then you give up this simplicity.
This is such an interesting point that it really throws the era of 'fake news' a judicial curveball.

The same question came up with Trump's phone calls to the Georgia AG when the President was essentially threatening the AG to 'do something'. There is apparently a lot of materiality to the notion of how much the President actually believed the issue of fraud.

Which is an altogether amazing new line of defence: "If you believe the lie thoroughly, you're literally less culpable!"